Accession number:
PML 145600
Published:
London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1793.
Description:
2 v. in 1 : ill. (engraving) ; 28 cm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Engraved title pages.
Illustrated with 70 copper engravings, including frontispiece in vol. 2, engraved t.p.'s with vignettes, and 67 plates, 12 of which are engraved by William Blake and the others by W. Skelton, W. Grainger, P. Audinet, Cook, Lovegrove, Manzell, and Wilson. The designs were adapted from those of W. Kent, J. Wootton or Gravelot in earlier editions. Cf. Bentley.
There is no indication of a printer; the long s is used throughout. Cf. Bentley.
Vol. 1: [2], xi, 225 p., [51] leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], vii, 187, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates.
List of subscribers and publisher's advertisement of Aesop's Fables, dated Feb. 2, 1793 p. 177-[188] of v. 2.
Binding:
Russia tooled in gilt.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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